About DAS

Division of Apprenticeship Standards - employers

Apprenticeship is a talent development model that can grow your workforce customized to your needs.

What can an apprentice do for your company?

The skilled workforce is aging and keeping skilled employees can be challenging. You get the opportunity to take individuals with raw talent and train them to your needs. You save money on recruitment. The apprentices that make it through a program have a commitment to their work and a loyalty to their educator/employer that ensures your company a large, diverse, flexible workforce of skilled workers.

Benefits:

Eliminates need for expensive recruitment programs; people are already trained.

Creates a diversified and flexible workforce and a larger pool of employees with specific skills.

Reduces cost of high labor turnover; employees show high morale and loyalty when in a training program that offers upward mobility through career development.

Increases productivity; employees in a structured training program are motivated to achieve.